Simon Sturmer
Software Engineer at Y Combinator
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Sturmer is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 15 years of experience building product-focused engineering teams and consumer-facing web apps from startup to scaled environments. He has held technical leadership roles at YC-backed startups and incumbents alike—cofounding KodeFox and Huddlefire (YC W21), directing engineering at Ario, and now contributing at Y Combinator after product infrastructure work at YouTube and front-end engineering at Facebook. Simon blends deep front-end expertise (notably contributions to an open-source Draft.js-based rich text editor) with hands-on product engineering and startup-building experience. He’s equally comfortable shipping UI components and shaping engineering orgs, and brings a pragmatic founder’s mindset to solving product and scalability trade-offs. Based in California, he also speaks and trains on engineering topics, reflecting a commitment to knowledge sharing beyond code.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
YC W21, YC W21 at Y Combinator
Github Skills (8)
css10
javascript10
react10
ui-components10
draft-js9
toolbar9
css-modules9
dropdown8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sstur/react-rte
Feb 2016 - Jan 2022
Pure React rich text WYSIWYG editor based on draft-js.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 8 reviews, 271 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the development of UI components within the `react-rte` repository, a rich text editor based on draft-js. Their work involved implementing new UI elements such as a button and dropdown menu, refining their styling, and integrating them into the editor's toolbar. The user also refactored the editor's toolbar structure and introduced features such as the ability to add links with customization options.
contenteditablereactpure-reactwysiwygjavascript
sstur/nbit
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
A zero-dependency, strongly-typed web framework for Bun, Node and Cloudflare workers
Contributions:9 releases, 1 review, 224 commits in 29 days
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